DAT finally done! 7-2-08. boom. please tell me what you think

[Dentvp97]

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It's finally over! I was happy with the scores overall. I thought i could've done a little better, but the qr section murdered me, mostly due to time and the fact that i studied the least amount for it.. weird. anyways let me know what you think. i know there is a cutoff for some schools. does this make the cutoff? i don't think it's that bad.

PAT- 21
Bio- 20
GChem- 19
OChem- 24
RC- 21
QR- 16
TS- 21
AA- 20

Overall, it was a bit harder than i thought it was going to be honestly. The sciences (well just bio and gchem) kind of psyched me out bc i thought i did really bad. As you can see, not that bad though. RCwasn't bad at all, QR i thought was ridiculous though. i studied for it the past few days, but it just seemed like all the stuff i studied hard, wasn't really on it. There were just several questions on the one subject i wasn't really prepared for. So yea, unlucky i guess. Plus the time issue. Def work on TIMING for QR, get the most points possible. If you don't know it, mark an answer, mark the question, and move on. It's not worth it to spend like 3 min on a problem ur not going to get anyway.
I used Kaplan course, Destroyer, and even Barron's a little until i realized it was absolute garbage. SOO many errors! If you have it, save the time and throw it out or burn it.. But yeah, took 4 practice tests in the past few days. well, 3 full length and then i retook the kaplan diagnostic bc i was feeling lazy one day, got a 23 on it. TOTALLY not realistic, so dont use it to gauge how you'll do.
Well if you have any questions, write on here. But my question is, is the QR okay???

 

[osimsDDS]

It's finally over! I was happy with the scores overall. I thought i could've done a little better, but the qr section murdered me, mostly due to time and the fact that i studied the least amount for it.. weird. anyways let me know what you think. i know there is a cutoff for some schools. does this make the cutoff? i don't think it's that bad.

PAT- 21
Bio- 20
GChem- 19
OChem- 24
RC- 21
QR- 16
TS- 21
AA- 20

Overall, it was a bit harder than i thought it was going to be honestly. The sciences (well just bio and gchem) kind of psyched me out bc i thought i did really bad. As you can see, not that bad though. RCwasn't bad at all, QR i thought was ridiculous though. i studied for it the past few days, but it just seemed like all the stuff i studied hard, wasn't really on it. There were just several questions on the one subject i wasn't really prepared for. So yea, unlucky i guess. Plus the time issue. Def work on TIMING for QR, get the most points possible. If you don't know it, mark an answer, mark the question, and move on. It's not worth it to spend like 3 min on a problem ur not going to get anyway.
I used Kaplan course, Destroyer, and even Barron's a little until i realized it was absolute garbage. SOO many errors! If you have it, save the time and throw it out or burn it.. But yeah, took 4 practice tests in the past few days. well, 3 full length and then i retook the kaplan diagnostic bc i was feeling lazy one day, got a 23 on it. TOTALLY not realistic, so dont use it to gauge how you'll do.
Well if you have any questions, write on here. But my question is, is the QR okay???

did you use any material like Cliff's AP bio or schaums for biology? or did you just use Kaplan blue book??? thanks

 

[Dentvp97]

Just Kaplan bb. And destroyer. There were a few questions on it that i recognized from destroyer actually. i think they were fine. im a bio major and i still dont think anything can really really prepare you for this section. just luck of the draw. though i think destroyer helped a good bit

 

[Kotik]

Good Job...now you can enjoy your summer🙂
I think your QR is OK.... you have solid scores on OC, RC, PAT.
Make sure you apply early, and you will be fine

 

[telebeans]

this is probably much too late, but you might want to save a little money not applying to certain schools (like UCSF) that won't look @ your app if you have less than a 17 in any given section.

good luck! great job on ochem. 🙂

 

[efficient]

Nice job!